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What?? Veggies washed in chlorine?
I decided to click on the MSN "food myths" link this morning and... baby carrots, frozen veggies and other precut veggies are washed in chlorine?? Is this rinsed off? Does this include salad mixes? Organics?
I have never looked into ingesting chlorine, but I don't clean with it because I know its not great for you, so I'm just figuring I really don't want to eat it either!
Oh and here's the link: http://health.msn.com/weight-loss/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=100253608&imageindex=2
Re: What?? Veggies washed in chlorine?
Yeah I saw that too. The title of the article is misleading as the majority of the "absurd myths" are about health, like eating before bed, not about food itself. Anyway, I love the response to "Are baby carrots preserved with bleach?" of "Not exactly..." Yeah, I'd say that produce being rinsed with chlorine is pretty close to bleach. I knew about this. Rather than have standard practices of keeping sources of E.Coli (like raw chicken) away from produce, they just rinse it in chlorine to kill the bacteria. So much easier right?
I don't know about packaged salad greens though, although I would think that they are rinsed after the contamination of bagged spinach last year (year before last?). My DH likes to make homemade almond milk, and I know all almonds (including organic) are pasturized since there was an E.Coli outbreak from almonds being stored next to chicken blood a few years ago. Some manufacturers use ultraviolet light for pasturization, but some use chemicals because it's cheaper. DH is trying to find unpasturized almonds online.
I learn something new everyday. This is unbelieveable--chemicals for the pasturizations--crazy. Thank you for sharing your little nugget of information!!
David Wolfe talks about this in one of his books, briefly. I think he says to look for sprouted almonds.
Slooooooooow down everyone. The article does not give you all the information you need to understand what they are doing to your food.
I audit restaurants, grocery stores, etc for food safety and I do organic standards compliance audits for several grocery stores.
Chlorine is used as a sanitizer in food service operations and is used as a produce wash in a manufacturing setting. The concentration that is used for chlorine is no more than 200 ppm (parts per million). That is roughly the equivalent of 1 tablespoon bleach to a gallon of water. The carrots are washed in that, drained, and then rinsed with plain water. There is hardly any chlorine left when they are done. The amount that is left is about the same as what's in your tap water. This article is misleading because it seems like your veggies are being sloshed around in some Clorox and then stuck in a bag.
The FDA requires that all cut produce be washed before it can be sold. As we have seen in the last few years, produce can cause illness so this is how it is being managed within a company that makes baby carrots, salad mixes, etc. Even organic produce can become contaminated and has to be washed.
If the chlorine thing still bothers you, buy whole carrots and whole heads of lettuce. Those are not washed because they pass that responsibility onto the customer.
I prefer a little chlorine to e. coli poisoning.
It's not unsafe. There's chlorine in your drinking water.
It keeps you safe from all kinds of nasty things.
How does he make almond milk?? I drink the stuff like it's going out of style, and would love to know how to make my own!
He soaks them, I think overnight, then grinds them very finely in the food processor and put them into a "nut bag" he bought online (cheesecloth works fine too, but it's $4 a package at our grocery store). He lets the bag drain into a container, and poof! Almond milk. He puts a date or two in with the soaking almonds and grinds that too, it makes it sweeter I think. I love 2% organic cow milk so I drink that organic.
I may not have the whole process there, I've just watched him a few times. Google "make your own almond milk" or something like that, I'll sure you'll find it.